Spring-motor apparatus.



PATENTED JUNE 4, 1907.

0. B. ELLIOTT, J. T. LOGGINS & W. B. STRAUGHAN.

SPRING MOTOR APPARATUS.

APPLICATION r ILED MAE. 2, 1907.

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CLAUD B. nLLroT'r, JOHN T. LOGGINS, Ann WELLIAM B. STRAUGHAN, orrmnrs'raan, rams.

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Specification of Letters ?atent.

Patented June 4, 1907.

Application filed Merci! 2 1907 Serial No. 360,171-

To all 1011 0112, may concern.-

Be it known that we, CLAUD B. ELLmT'r and John T. Looenvs and 'WTLLIAMB. STRAUGHAN, citizens of the United States, residing at Hempstead, inthe county of Wallcr and State of Texas, have invented new and usefulImprovements in Spring-Motor Apparatus, of which the following is aspeci-. fication.

Our invention ertains to spring motor apparatus, and will be fullyunderstood from the following description and claims when the same areread in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming part of thisspecification, in which:

Figure 1 is a view partly in elevation and partly in vertical section,illustrating the ap paratus constitutin the preferred embodiment of ourinvention as properly positioned relative to a receptacle in which thematerial to be worked is placed. Fig. 2 is a detail ver tical sectiontaken diametrically through the apparatus. larged scale, illustratingthe arrangement of the controlling device of the motor or apparatus,relative to the part with which it cooperates. Fig. i: is a similar viewshowing the manner in which we prefer to effect connection between thearbor through the medium of which the driving spring is wound and themajor gear of the apparatus.

Similar letters designate corresponding parts in all of the views of thedrawings, referring to which:

A is a receptacle which is open at its upper end and is designed tocontain the cream or other substance to be worked through the medium ofour novel apparatus. The said receptacle A forms no part of ourinvention and it may therefore be of any suitable description.

B is the casing of our improved apparatus which is preferably formed ofmetal, though it may be formed of any material consonant with thepurpose of our invention. The said casing com rises a sectioncwhichdescribes more than ialf of'a circle, and a segmental door sectionb'hingcd at c to the section a; and it is provided with a skirt flange(Z' de signed to rest over the upper end of the receptacle A, and isalso provided with an upper chamber 0 and a lower and comparativelylarge chamber 7.

Arranged in the upper chamber 0 of casing Fi 3 is a detail view on ancn-- indicated by'g for the application of a wrench or lever which wehave deemed it unnecessary to illustrate. The lower portion of the saidarbor D extends loosely throughthe center of a large miter gear E, andis connected with the said gear E through the medium of a ratchet wheel7t oii arbor D and one or more" )awis '2', on gear E, as clearly shownin Fig. 4.

y virtue of this provision, it will be apparent that when. the arbor Dis turned to wind or place under compression the spring C, the saidarbor is free to turn independent of the wheel E and the parts,presently described," that are driven through the medium of said wheel;also, that when the spring C is compressed or under tension, and thewheel or gear E is released in the'manner hereinafter set forth, thewheel or gear E will be rotated by the spring 0 through the medium ofthe arbor D and the connection between said arbor and the wheel or gearE.

F is the controlling device of the apparatus, The said controllingdevice F is connected with and carried by the section a of casing B, andis movable by hand into and out of engagement with lugs t on a mitergear a, presently described. when the spring C is under tensionit may beretainedin such state by leaving the device F in the positionillustrated, while when it is desired to utilize theexpansion of thespring to drive the dasher shafts, presently described, such end may beaccomplished by simply drawing the device F out of the path of the saidlu s t G is a tubular dasher shaftarranged in the casing section (1 andhaving its upper end connected through a yoke t with a miter gear orloosely mo unted above acollar p on. the lower end of arbor D, and H isa vertical and tubular dasher shaft which receives the shaft G and isjournalcd in the lower wall ofthe casing section a and is providedimmediately above said wall with a miter gear n. In the upper on d ofdashcr-shaft G is a small angular socket r. This latter is for the engaemerit of the lower angular end of the she s of a rotary balance deviceI, the office of Thus it will be seen that I G on which are lined two(more or which is to'render even the motionoi the dasher shafts. The rodor shalt .s' is removable from the angular socket r and the tuhulararbor l), and hence it will he seen that when it is desired to wind thespring (5 through the medium of the arbor l) in the manner beforedescribed, the balance device a Whole. may he removed from the apparatesso as not to interfere with the said operation,

The rotary balance device is p reierahly made up of arms m weighted attheir outer ends and connected at their inner ends to the shaft 8, and acollar a resting on. a fixed hearing a and having arms p connected tothe arms in.

Motion is transmitted from the gear E to the miter gears m and ILthrough the medium of a shaft t iournaled in the o ring section c, thebefore mentioned miter a interine'shed with the gear ill, a miter gearfixed on shaft tend intermcsl'ied with gear 11 and a miter gear 1) fixedon the shaft i. and internieshed with the gears in and a. From this itfollows that when the gear if) is in motion. the dasher shaft G will berotated in one di rection and the dasher sh aft l-l will be rotated inthe opposite directior. v

Telescopically arranged in the shaft G and adjustahly fixed thereto by aset screw 3N or other suitable means is anadiustahle shaft less)suitable blades K, while telescopically arranged in the dashcr shaft llis an adjustable ,tuhular shaft ll equipped with two (more or less)suitable blades ll. ihe adjustable shaft ll loosely receives the lowerportion oi the dasher shalt G and is znl ustahly lined to the dashershaft H through the medium of a set screw as or other suitable means.

By virtue of the provision of l he adjustable or extensible shafts G andii it will he apparent thatthc blades K and ii may he positioned atvarious distances below the casing 15 according to the depth of theparticular receptacle A in connection with which our novel apparatus isemployed.

substance to he worked, and the blades it and I} are arranged in thesuhstanee and the casing 13 is arranged or mounted on the upper end ofthe receptacle. Then when the spring C is wound or placed under tensionand the gear u is released by manipulation of the con trolling device Iit will be seen that the gears E and 'u, will be rotated by the springthrough the arbor I) and the connection shown in Fig. 4, and that motionwill he transmitted from the gear E to the dasher shalt (l and thedashcr shalt ll, and that said shafts and their blades will be rapidlyrotated in opposite directions. To stop the operation of the apparatusit is simply necessary to throw the controlling device l hack intoengagement with the gear a.

l nasinuch our novel apparatus in simply mounted on the upper end of thereceptacle A. it will lze understood that sulseqiwnt to the completionof a churning or other operation, the apparatus may he convenientlylifted away irom the receptacle, and the receptacle may then heconveniently discharged of its contents. it will also he understood thatwhen the apparatus is remoyed from the receptacle the dasher shafts andthe hladcs may he expeditiously and casil freed of any hutler or othersubstance that may have ollc led thereon.

The construction herein descrihed constitutes the prelc ed cmlmdiment ofour invention, hut it is ohyious that in practice such changes in theform, onstruction and rela tive arrangement oi parts may he made'l'airly fall within the scope of our inyention as deiinnd iutheappended claims. For instance the hearing (1, provided on the upper sideof the casing section (L not essei'itial, and may lie omitted withoutail'ccting our in vention. Said hearing is provided merely to rcceiwithe upper portion of the sl'ia'lt s with a view of holding said snaftagainst lateral deflection.

Having descrihed our invention, what we claim and desire to secure byLetters-Patent, is:- I

i, in an apparatus for the purpose dcscrihcd, the combination. of acasing, a spring arranged in the casin and counwrted therewith,centralvertical, tuliular arhor jour nalcd in the casing and extendingthrough and einn'iccted with the. spring, a. shaft journaled in thecasing and arranged helow and in vertical alinemei'it with the arhor andhaving an no ular socket in its upper end, a mih' gear loosely mountedon the arhor and fixedly connected with. the said shall, a tuhular shaltloosely surrounding the latter shall and journalml in the casing andhaving a miter gear at its upper end, a large miter gear loosely mountedon the arhor, apawl and and said large miter gear, a miter gun arrangedbetween and intcrmeshed \\'il-h the miter gears on the shafts andconnected through interposed gearing with the large miter gear, a rotaryhalauee device having a rod or shalt cxtci'iding down tln'oughthetuhular ai'hor and terminating in an angular end disposed in lhe'angularsocket oi the lirst mentioned shalt, and means mounted in the casing andarranged to he nuwcd into and out of engagement with one oi" the gearsto control rotation of the iirst mentioned shalt.

2. in an apparatus for the. purpose dcscrihcd, the comhiiiation o'l' acasing, a spring arranged in the casing and connected therewith, acentral vertical, tubular arhor jourratchet connection intermcdlate thearbor naled in the casing and extending through and eonneeted with thespring, a shaft journaled in the easing and arranged helow and invertit-al alinenlent with the arhor and having :inangular sor'het in itsHyper end a Illlter gear loosely mounted on the arhor and lar shaftloosely surrounding the latter shaft and journaled in. the casing andhaving a miter gear at. its upper end, a. large nnter gear looselymounted on. the arhor, a pawl and ratchet eonneetirm internn-diate thearhor j with a eireular series of lateral lugs, a controlling leverlulerunled in the easing and ntorahle into and out of the path of thesaid. lugs, and a rotary halanee,deviee having a E rod orshaft extendingdown through the tu fixedly eonneeted wit h the said shalt, a tuluandsaid large miter gear, a, miter gear armeeting the said shalt and thelarge lllllt'l" gear; one of the said gears heing ])l' )\'l(lt l l hulararhor and terminating in an angular end disposed in the angular socketof the first tnentiened shaft.

[.11 testi mony whereof we have. hereunto set, ur hands in presenee oftwo subscribing Wit HPSSPN.

